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11 1 Three individuals were sworn in: Applicant Brian Quinlan, Michael Harvey, 2 Supervisor /Planner III Orange County Planning, and Patrick Mallett, Planner II Orange 3 County Planning 4 5 Chair Dorosin asked staff to review the abstract. 6 7 Patrick Mallett: Good evening, Commissioners. Pat Mallett with Current Planning. I've been 8 duly sworn. Before I go through the presentation, I am going to walk you 9 through the large stack of what you're dealing with. With a special use permit, 10 you tend to have a lot of paperwork. You should have at each of your places: a 11 hard copy of the PowerPoint presentation; a larger stack that is the abstract on 12 the front end, and all the ten attachments; 11 x17 version of the site plan; and 13 then the script that follows through the process for a special use permit. I'd like 14 to enter all of those items into the record including the abstract in your packets 15 with all referenced attachments. 16 17 Through consensus the Board entered all items associated with the application into the record 18 as requested by staff. 19 20 Patrick Mallett made the following PowerPoint presentation: 21 22 PUBLIC HEARING — 23 AGENDA ITEM: 5.a 24 CLASS A SPECIAL USE PERMIT 25 DEVELOPMENT OF A SOLAR ARRAY - PUBLIC UTILITY 26 Orange County Board of Commissioners 27 February 6, 2018 28 29 PROPERTY INFORMATION 30 • PIN(s): 9835 -02 -9137 (site); and 9835 -10 -3858 (access) 31 • Size: Approximately 52 acres (leased area +/ -27 acres) 32 • Zoning: R -1 (Rural Residential) 33 Overlay(s): Back Creek Protected Watershed/ Efland- Cheeks Highway 70 Overlay 34 District 35 Future Land Use Map Designation: 10 -Year Transition Area 36 Growth Management System Designation: Urban Designated 37 38 REQUEST: 39 Erection of panels on 27 acres of 52 acre parcel; 40 Typical array between 7 -9 ft. in height, between 2 -3 ft. of ground clearance; and 50 -75 41 ft. in length; 42 Arrays screened by existing vegetation (stream and floodplain buffers) and Type D Land 43 Use Buffer; 44 An 8' high chain link security fence around perimeter; 45 Gravel paths /drives around solar arrays to permit access; 46 Depending on the soil and topography, areas around the panels will be combination of 47 natural groundcover, grass, and /or paths;